[mimixco]

There aren't usually non competes for workers and I totally agree there shouldn't be... unless they're salaried workers who create intellectual property.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too. If you want to sell software, don't work for someone else in that business. Just sell it yourself!

[irtigor]

In my country, as a salaried dev, I can definitely get sued for copyright infringement if I decide to quit working for a company and open a competing business. Even if I didn't intentionally copied any code/asset the legal process by itself would be a hassle to deal with when I'm just starting a business and depending on how I decided to write my new stuff for my business I can indeed be found guilty because I unintentionally copied myself (same design decisions, using the same tech stack, variable naming convention, same price formula for... to the point that could be reasonable argued that I just copied and pasted some important portions if not the whole code base), so yeah, if I decided to do something like this I would quit before writing a single line of code for my business and probably take a vacation/work on something else for a few weeks, before jumping in.

[lamontcg]

yeah that's bullshit, you can own the IP you can't own what the employee knows about their field. that is just corporate overreach.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014366577/biden-moves-to-res...